FP2002: Custom Fonts Display as Courier or Arial in Normal View

When you use a third-party font in a Web page that you create, in normal view, the font does not display as expected, but displays instead in Courier or Arial font. You may experience this issue with fonts that include, but are not limited to the following:

Abadi MT Condensed Light: The Monotype Corporation
AbileneFLF
Alexei Copperplate ITC: Corel Corporation
Amazone BT: Bitstream, Inc.
American Typewriter Medium BT: Bitstream, Inc.
Aeolus TTF
Arial Rounded MT Bold
Aurora Condensed BT: Bitstream, Inc.
Bank Gothic Medium BT: Bitstream, Inc.
Bazooka
BD Jurassic: Streetwise
BD Keyboard: Streetwise
BD Springer: Atech Software
Blackletter 686 BT: Bitstream, Inc.
Boulder Regular: Altsys Fontographer 3.5
Brushscript MT
Cheap Fire: Corel Draw 4
Chisel D: URW Software
Copperplate Gothic Bold
Copperplate Gothic Light
Denmark
Dom Casual: Adobe Corporation
Lucida Handwriting
Lucida Sans: Adobe Corporation
Market
Victorian Inline Shaded LET Plain:1.0: Esselte Letraset Ltd.
Victorian LET Plain:1.0: Esselte Letraset Ltd.
Wanted Poster: WSI Font Collection
Westminster
Wild West: WSI Font Collection
Woodcut: Generated by Metamorphosis Pro 2.01
Zapf Humanist 601 BT: Bitstream, Inc.

To work around this issue, develop the page in the font that you want to use. To complete visual tests, click Preview in Browser on the File menu, instead of normal view. When a user visits your Web site, the pages will display correctly if the font that you used is installed on the user's computer, or if you used an embedded font.

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

The third-party products that are discussed in this article are manufactured by companies that are independent of Microsoft. Microsoft makes no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding the performance or reliability of these products.